Procurement and Supply Chain Manager

Costain; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the UK's water sector is seeking a Procurement and Supply Chain Manager to drive efficiency and innovation in procurement processes. This hybrid role involves collaboration with project teams and stakeholders to implement effective supply chain strategies, ensuring alignment with environmental and social governance goals.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in a similar role.
• Extensive knowledge of supply chain management and procurement.
• Experience in developing and implementing ESG policies.

Responsibilities

• Lead project subcontract procurement and supply chain management.
• Collaborate with internal teams to deliver procurement strategies.
• Manage supply chain performance and drive ESG initiatives.

Skills

Emotional Intelligence

Supply Chain Management

Procurement Skills

Negotiation

Data Analysis

Education

Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply qualified (min level 5)

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

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Job Description

Costain have won extensive work across the water sector this year to support the AMP 8 investment cycle. We have been appointed by United Utilities as one of 7 partners to the Enterprise, delivering £5.5bn of projects in the Asset Management Period 8 (AMP8) between 2025 - 2030, and AMP 9 (2030 - 2035). Our scope is to provide project management, design, construction and commissioning services on design and build schemes throughout the North West and Cumbria region covered by United Utilities. Projects vary in value, covering both infrastructure and non-infrastructure assets on water and wastewater sites with wider Enterprise partners

The role of the Procurement and Supply Chain Manager is to lead project subcontract procurement and be an advisor to project stakeholders along with post-contract award Supply Chain Management and contribute to the development and deployment of direct Category Strategies for group business needs. The role operates within the Water sector Procurement and Supply Chain team, working closely with the project leads, Sector Head of P&SC and other members of the wider P&SC management team. You are responsible for ensuring that your sector P&SC strategy is deployed and implemented, balancing and optimising both the operational requirements of our projects and the strategic goals of our Group objectives.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact in the sector, driving efficiency, sustainability, and innovation within the procurement and supply chain function.

This a Hybrid role working across our Warrington and Manchester offices 2-3 days per week.

Responsibilities

The role will report to the Sector Head of Procurement and Supply Chain and will be part of the functional SLT team and lead on project Procurement and Supply Chain Management across the Water sector. The P&SC Manager role will be responsible for:

• Delivering Procurement (Pre-Contract) & Supply Chain Management (Post-Contract) across their sector, providing direction and support in the process. This will include collaborating seamlessly with the pre-construction estimating team and the post-award commercial team under our One Team, One Costain vision
• Ability to utilise the Procurement Process to enable ECI, guiding the team on the decision-making criteria such as (but not limited to): the maturity of the design, the preservation of commercial tension, the likely benefits realisation pipeline, the opportunity to secure scarce resource, the relationship with the proposed ECI 2-stage Subcontractor and the ability to take a recommendation through The Costain Way gated governance
• Project management and procurement to deliver our category strategy requirements
• Project management of subcontract procurement activities, delivering predictable best-in-class outcomes which enable the project team to meet all key dates and milestones, whilst delivering high forecast accuracy, ensuring a robust and structured supply chain exists to service the requirements of the projects / frameworks fully complying with the How- to- Buy Process
• Enabling the drive towards Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), including but not limited to local Small to Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) engagement, delivering Social Impact, as well as Net Zero
• Promote collaboration between the business and the supply chain to unlock value through innovation and best practice where appropriate using the principles of ISO44001 or P13 principles
• Develop strong relationships with key internal stakeholders to democratise the procurement process, our strategic approach and governance, unlocking Value for Money across our portfolio of work
• Develop relationships with client's Supply Chain and Procurement teams, participating in their initiatives to assist them in achieving their goals, maximising stakeholder engagement with external stakeholders to deliver outcomes
• Leverage operational procurement and subcontract practices that keep disallowed costs to a minimum, with a small delta between the normalised quote and the outturn cost, preserving the margin of our projects and the Group.
• Supply Chain Performance Management, including managing under-performance with successful corrective action planning, and excellent performance (via the sharing of lessons learned)

Qualifications

Essential

• Significant experience working in a similar level role
• A clear and visible enthusiasm for driving improvement in best practice
• Ability to demonstrate a level of emotional intelligence, capable of engaging with a wide-ranging stakeholder group
• Extensive knowledge of supply chain management and procurement
• Experience of collaborative working and implementing innovation
• Operational Procurement & Supply Chain skills relevant to the construction industry
• Extensive knowledge of leading procurement and supply chain practice and the value the P&SC function adds to our projects is communicated regularly throughout the function to drive a learning culture
• Basic carbon literacy and an awareness of ISO20400 Guidance Standard for Sustainable Procurement
• Experienced in leading supply chain engagement, e.g., chairing procurement meetings and negotiations
• A clear and visible enthusiasm for driving improvement in best practice
• Experience in developing and implementing ESG and SV policies with the supply base
• Experience of collaborative working and implementing innovation
• Familiarity with NEC forms of contract
• Proactive, flexible and results oriented
• Adaptable at working in both team environment and working in isolation
• Excellent Microsoft Office suite proficiency (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams)
• Strong numerical, financial and data analysis skills.
• Member Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply qualified (min level 5)

Desirable

• Experience in negotiating heavily modified NEC3/NEC4 subcontracts to promote demonstrative favourable commercial outcomes for the business
• Previous knowledge of Frameworks projects and associated procurement practices
• More extensive expertise in ISO2040 and be able to demonstrate delivering tangible sustainable outcomes through the supply chain (i.e. such as a reduction in Scope 3 GHGs)
• ISO 44001 experience from concept to delivery with Strategic Supply Chain Partners (or an equivalent level of demonstrated experience with Project 13 principles)

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About Us

Costain helps to improve people's lives with integrated, leading edge, smart infrastructure solutions across the UK's energy, water, transportation and defence markets. We help our clients improve their business performance by increasing capacity, improving customer service, safeguarding security, enhancing resilience, decarbonising and delivering increased efficiency. Our vision is to be the UK's leading smart infrastructure solutions company. We will achieve this by focusing on blue chip clients whose major spending plans are underpinned by strategic national needs, regulatory commitments, legislation or essential performance requirements. We offer our clients leading edge solutions that are digitally optimised through the following five services which cover the whole lifecycle of their assets: future-shaping strategic consultancy; consultancy and advisory; digital technology solutions; asset optimisation and complex programme delivery. Our culture and values underpin everything we do.

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